Seahawks fans say they’ll fly ‘Go Hawks’ banner above San Francisco

A group of Seattle fans has pooled money to fly a “Go Hawks” banner over San Francisco when the Seahawks play the 49ers at Candlestick Park on Sunday.

A Seahawks fan cheers on his team during Monday night’s 34-7 defeat of the Saints at CenturyLink Field. (Mark Malijan/seattlepi.com)

Fans have raised more than $1,800 — far beyond their $1,300 goal — to pay for a banner and the rental of a small plane to tow it over the Bay Area for about 15 minutes Sunday. According to the FundRazr page they set up, organizers Cedric Morris and Travis Platt have already sent in their payment for the rental and are planning for a 12th Man banner to fly over Candlestick Park before kickoff.

“Many of us can’t make it to Candlestick Park to support our Seahawks on Dec. 8th when they play the 49ers,” Morris wrote on the FundRazr page. “Let’s show the world, and those 49ers, what the 12th Man is all about.”

It appears the banner will say “Go Hawks 12!” in blue and green letters. Here’s a bit more from Morris:

Obviously they can not fly over during the game, but they can not fly over up to an hour prior to the game either. So the game starts at 1:25, so the plane will be in the sky at 12:05 until 12:20. The good thing about this time, is that the players will be on the field at this time warming up, opposed to the other proposed time of 1:00 in which the players would have not seen it. Another positive point is that just about 80% if not more of the people coming to the game will be there at the this time watching the “GO HAWKS -12 ” swirl around their stadium for a full 15 minutes…not 10 minutes, but a full 15 minutes.

Morris wrote on FundRazr that the extra money he and Platt raised for the effort will go to the Wounded Warrior Project.